I do definitely believe in "emotional color theory", mostly because I know for a fact that a lot of white makes me feel alert / awake, while nature colors like brown shelves and green tiles or carpets make me feel more relaxed. We used to still have that 60s / 70s style green porcelain in our bathroom and I felt extremely annoyed when it got renovated to be all white - taking a shit or shower unironically has never felt the same since then and I was young enough during this change to be confident it's not related to just simple nostalgia, though of course I do have nostalgia for it nowadays.
I absolutely hate this undying fascination most people seem to have with sterile white with black interiors, calling it modern when we've been stuck with it as the standard for over 20 years, which is also why I believe the last 2 decades felt so bland, samey and void of any real characteristic. I feel this lack of colors (and design) in the modern world sucks out all the fun and wonder in life and also plays the biggest part / is heavily related to people's issue with oversimplification. It's depressing. I feel the same way about websites and immediately noticed with the maunstream ones moving to a standardized design. Sorty for going off on design so much, it goes hand in hand with the color thing to me.

Either way, I have a lot of brown furniture in my living room, some of it older, and I love to sometimes just turn around from my chair and look at everything in the warm light of my desk lamp. I don't care doing this in any other room where the white walls just overpower everything.

>>162358
Reply chunks based on the theme used:

Luna
It's inevitable. I've been reading into how artists use colors, from IRI research charts to Kobayashi charts, and yeah, you could influence the users depending on what's the default theme. I'm not sure I'd stick to Kissu like I do if Luna wasn't the default?

Kissu
God damn that interior is ugly. Is that the best they could do? It's like they want people to NOT wash their hands and whatever is else there in that tiny room.

Nekokimi
Make people feel good, and they'll cling to you. Make people feel stylish. Elevate the people. Make them learn their existence deserves a good place.

Hazuki
They should either survey the personnel for color associations or use patterned environments that use at least 2 relaxing hues. If some smartass manager tells me "this color will relax you!" and it doesn't then you know he's LYING. You can BEAT HIM UP.

Lala
They should either add more functionality to the walls or get the personnel high. This is a charade anyway. Stinky enclosed space about to blow up anytime either emotionally or physically, yeah you'll totally consider the moods with blood splatter on the walls and water in your lungs.
This reminds me of moodboards. They're a cool concept that's not explored much on anonymous imageboards. We could use a separate thread for them. I trust kissu enough to suggest that.

Yeah, I've been wanting to and attempt to do CSS revamps to add more themes to kissu now and then, but it's just so god damn BORING and FRUSTRATING to stare at text for hours. Designing a visual thing via text is so nonsensical and counterproductive that I don't know how anyone does it. Would you sculpt a statue by writing coordinates on a piece of paper?

But yes, I do believe strongly in colors and ambience influencing mood. I think it's part of the reason the modern internet feels so lifeless- it's all flat greys to look more 'professional', occasionally littered with those obnoxiously ugly corporate blob cartoons. In general our modern surroundings, unless you're lucky, are centered around efficiency and functionality over style and beauty. We're surrounded by grey concrete squares and grey concrete roads and as mentioned before, featureless monotonous websites.

>>162370
Is that not why any design prototypes are done visually first, as flat concept imagery? They had me do that even in the college frontend class.

>>162361
More Nekomimi thoughts
Generally, if you make any pic have a frame, perhaps the classic black-white like what makes impact font macros readable anywhere, you'd soften the bad contrast effect between the pic and the used theme. I think the visceral reaction from Kissu theme was exactly because of a bad hue contrast, for example.

>>162371
Sure, I can put colors in an image, but transferring it to list form is rough. This is because I was trying to revamp the whole process as each theme is currently assembled from different points in kissu history where there was different CSS stuff going on so it's a massive headache as there's no universal order.
Bleh...

>>162370
koupen theme please

>>162373
Oh wow, Nekomimi theme made me misreply. Still going to keep using it

This thread made me really comfortability and design-conscious. I don't want to use most of software at all not just because I have ADHD, but because all their default designs truly are utterly revolting for my natural discerning senses. These are NOT the kind of design diversities promised to us by retro and Y2K futuristic media. The interface is the environment and the interface that makes you to turn away is NOT good no matter how """efficient""" the designer prefers to think it is.

>>162426
Oh my god all my software I use is so rigid and stifling. Most have zero room for customization. A theme isn't "DARK MODE OR LIGHT MODE". I hate computers

When I was in my mid-thirties, I was interviewed for a documentary... It was a documentary on the subject of cat behavior. Now, I've had cats my whole life; I have three cats now, and at the time of this documentary interview, I had four cats. I sat down for the interview and was joined by a veterinarian who specialized in felines: Doctor Caroline Wellmitz was her name, I believe... and the doctor discussed colorblindness in animals, and how it affects their behavior.

She specifically brought up the fact that cats are red-green colorblind; they can see colors, but they can't tell the difference between red and green ...and look at the color choice in this strip here.

Garfield sits on a green floor, behind a pinkish red wall.

I heard this, and I immediately pulled a copy of the comic from my wallet to show to the doctor... I moved so fast, I'm sure I nearly scared her, I... pointed at the paper and said, "Like this! Like this! Look, at this here! This cat, Garfield, he's colorblind, he must be! That must be the answer here... like this."

As over-excited as I was, I managed to take in her response; she said "Yes, a cat in this room would have a hard time differentiating the wall from the floor. Add to that a cat's known spatial confusion, and you have the makings of a Cat Rage room." Now, she informed me that this isn't exactly common knowledge among cat owners... but a seasoned cat owner, or someone particularly perceptive will have picked up on it.

So what's incredible here is not only is Garfield's behavior symbolic of the devil, and all the evil constructs in the world, but... but, but... but also, it is rooted in science and scientific fact.

Look at that. You cannot spell fact without "cat".

>>162426
And no damn wonder so many people do drugs. You have to hallucinate something in all those countless blank spaces to make yourself comfortable with the anti-designs.

Music DAWs seem to avoid a lot of these issues, they tend to be quite pleasing to look at
And that's not even going into custom VSTs that vary wildly between being beautiful to look at, to being minimalist and simple to "Graphic design is my passion"
Special shout to VSTs that give you a little anime girl on your screen that reacts to the keys you're playing

>>162454
Post beats to kissu to, please.

>>162455
Sorry, I lost my pirated copy of FL Studio in a hard drive failure and I never came back to it
Maybe one day

>>162358
It still looks miserable and hideous, but now in calming green.
I equate it to trying to cover up the smell of diarrhea with artificial lavender.

>>162488
They hadn't found a cure for meat-o-vison before the 80's, hence the extensive use of green in home decor.

>>162490
Utawarerumono ears hair

>>162358
>Do you believe in this sort of concept?
sort of but on this speaks also memory how once this was told to us in school when that the reason why walls are green or brown in schools and unis is because before it was believed during time these were build or renovated it calms down students.
> used a lot of sea foam green in their color scheme, do you think you'd be a different sort of person?
no i would feel a bit dull because that's for what these pellets are often. So you wont get frustrated from constant eye punching colour

>>162681
Public schools are painted the same color as prisons because they train you to either do factory work or to go to prison/jail.

>>162358
I remember seeing something about how Cold War Soviet aircraft were painted in a blue-green color because it was calming, presumably so they could make better decisions.

>>162361
It's not just the color of the furniture. A lot of furniture used to be made from wood, or at least looked like it on the surface. And carpet was very common. Nowadays everyone uses laminated flooring. Light bulbs used to be incandescent.
I think all these little details had big effects on the feeling of places.
The thing is "modern" design does not look modern at all. For example, the 2000s era Playstation consoles look much more modern and futuristic than anything released in the past 5 years.

>>162707
Everything about public schools is intentionally designed to mindbreak talented people and turn the rest into cattle. But that can be left for another thread.